No palco da vida: apropriações, práticas e modos de trabalhar dos artistas de rua na cidade de Ponta Grossa-PR (2010-2020)

Abstract

This paper brings the life experiences narrated by street artists in Ponta Grossa, in the south region of Paraná. By these experiences and the new meaning given to them, the goal of this paper is introducing a discussion about the doing worker of the street artists through their life trajectory that reveals common meaning. It was identified that these workers are in a contest for meanings and places in town. Inside these contests, the identity as a worker, and the new meaning of work through the senses assigned to work with street art, are emerging to them. The narratives were produced adopting the Oral History methodology, on 2019-2020. It is important to mention that, by the COVID -19 pandemic, that was deflagrated in March of 2020, this research had a limited number of speakers. This way, it was applied written sources as law projects, laws, decrees, Chamber Sections minutes, articles and news report published in online news portals.